ROSSINILa donna del lago

Mironov Ganassi Pizzolato von BothmerGierlach Peretyatko Cifolelli

SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern Zedda

2 CDs

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ROSSINI(1792-1868)

La donna del lagoMelodramma in Two Acts

Critical edition by Fondazione Rossini, edited by H. Colin Slim (Ricordi BMG)

Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola

Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonia Ganassi, Mezzo-soprano Uberto/Giacomo V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maxim Mironov, TenorMalcolm Groeme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marianna Pizzolato, Mezzo-sopranoRodrigo di Dhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ferdinand von Bothmer, Tenor Douglas dAngus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wojtek Gierlach, BassAlbina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olga Peretyatko, SopranoSerano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stefan Cifolelli, Tenor

Prague Chamber Choir(Chorus master: Adolf Melichar)

Tbingen Festival Band(Director: Martin Amberger)

SWR Radio Orchestra KaiserslauternAlberto Zedda

Recorded live at the Kursaal, Bad Wildbad, Germany, 31st October, 2nd & 4th November 2006

as a co-production between the ROSSINI IN WILDBAD Festival (Artistic director: Jochen Schnleber)

and SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern (Orchestra manager: Ulrich de Veer)

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SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern

The SWR Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern, with a history of over five decades, has a repertoire ranging from thebaroque, classical symphonies, the romantic, opera and operetta melodies to Viennese waltzes, musicals and filmscores, classical modern works and minimalism. Until 1987 Emmerich Smola, as Principal Conductor, shaped theprofile of the orchestra. In the 1950s Zarah Leander, Johannes Heesters and Anneliese Rothenberger were often inthe Kaiserslautern studios, and the great composers of entertainment music, among them Robert Stolz and FranzGrothe, conducted their own works. More recently Montserrat Caball, Cecilia Bartoli, Vesselina Kasarova, AnnaMaria Kaufmann and Juan Diego Flrez have made guest appearances. With the conductor Christopher Franklin theorchestra undertook a concert tour of Germany, and participated in the internationally acclaimed Bad Wildbad LaCenerentola with Alberto Zedda. In 2007 it became part of the newly established German Radio Philharmonic.

Alberto Zedda

Alberto Zedda was born in 1928 in Milan, where he began his humanistic and musical studies. In 1957 he won theRAI International Conductors Competition, a success that opened the door for him to the most important Italianinstitutions, La Scala, Santa Cecilia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI, and abroad in Germany, Holland,Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Israel, the United States, China and Japan. At the same time he wascontinually involved in opera at La Scala (Milan), San Carlo (Naples), La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Massimo(Palermo), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Covent Garden, the Mariinsky, and the Vienna State Opera, as well as inSan Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Prague, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, Lisbon,Barcelona and Madrid. His many recordings include orchestral and chamber music, as well as opera. He has taughtthe History of Music at the University of Urbino and Musical Philology at the Osimo Accademia. He dedicates partof his time to musicology and has produced critical editions of operas, oratorios and cantatas, with particularattention to Rossini and music of the first half of the nineteenth century. He has served as director of Italian repertoryat The New York City Opera and has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Rossini Foundation since itsestablishment. He has also been musical director of the Festival della Valle DItria of Martina Franca, artistic advisorof the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival, artistic director of the Genoa Carlo Felice and the Milan La Scala theatres, andof the Baroque Festival of Fano. He is currently director of the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival and HonoraryPresident of the German Rossini Society. He is probably the most experienced expert on and conductor of Rossini ofour time, and therefore also an unsurpassed teacher for young singers, whom he teaches at his Accademia Rossinianain Pesaro, but also in master-classes throughout the world and often at Wildbad. At his early dbut with the NewYork Philharmonic he came across some unplayable passages in the published edition of the Overture to Il barieredi Siviglia, thus unearthing the carelessness of tradition. In the 1960s he revised the score from the autograph, thusmarking the beginning of modern, philologically exact Rossini scholarship and the now legendary Rossini revival.First in the 1970s, however, he was acknowledged as a true Rossinian, grasping as no other the range of the abstractform and individual meaning in Rossinis music. Since 1998, when he studied Il viaggio a Reims at the tenth festivalwith a group of outstanding young singers from all over the world, he has conducted many times at JochenSchnlebers ROSSINI IN WILDBAD Festival and undertaken a number of recording projects for Naxos.

CD 1 73:29

Act I

1 Sinfonia - IntroductionDel d la messaggiera 4:55(Pastori, Pastorelle, Cacciatori)

2 Oh mattutini albori! 4:06(Elena)

3 Qual suon! Sullalta rocca 3:06(Elena, Uberto)

4 Scendi nel piccol legno 3:22(Elena, Uberto)

5 Uberto! Ah! Dove ti ascondi? 4:27(Cacciatori)

6 Sei gi nel tetto mio 3:50(Elena, Uberto)

7 DInibaca, donzella 3:14(Le compagne, Elena, Uberto)

8 Sei gi sposa? 2:14(Uberto, Elena)

9 Quali accenti! Quai tormenti! 2:23(Uberto, Elena)

0 Ma son sorpreso 5:14(Uberto, Elena, Le compagne)

! Mura felici 2:30(Malcolm)

@ Elena! Oh tu, chio chiamo! 3:29(Malcolm)

# Oh quante lacrime 3:25(Malcolm)

$ Figlia, cos 2:12(Douglas, Malcolm, Elena)

% Taci, lo voglio, e basti 4:13(Douglas)

^ E nel fatal conflitto 1:35(Elena, Malcolm)

& Viver io non potr 3:44(Elena, Malcolm)

* Qual rapido torrente 6:21(Guerrieri, Rodrigo)

( Ma dov colei, che accende 2:59(Rodrigo, Guerrieri)

) Se a miei voti Amor sorride 2:29(Rodrigo, Guerrieri)

Alfin mi dato, amico 1:30(Douglas, Rodrigo)

Vieni, o stella 2:12(Guerrieri)

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1 Quanto a questalma amante 4:42(Rodrigo, Douglas, Elena)

2 La mia spada 1:33(Malcolm, Elena, Douglas)

3 Questo amplesso, a te fia pegno 1:48(Rodrigo, Malcolm, Douglas, Elena)

4 Crudele sospetto 2:14(Rodrigo, Elena, Malcolm, Douglas, Albina, Donne, Guerrieri)

5 Sul colle a Morve opposto 2:02(Serano, Donne, Guerrieri, Douglas, Rodrigo, Malcolm)

6 Gi un raggio forier 3:01(Bardi, Albina, Donne, Guerrieri, Rodrigo, Douglas)

7 Su amici! Guerrieri! 2:13(Malcolm, Rodrigo, Douglas, Guerrieri, Albina, Elena, Donne)

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Stefan Cifolelli

The tenor Stefan Cifolelli was born in Antwerp and studied at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels,where he was first engaged in opera and bel canto. From 2002 to 2004 he attended master-classesunder Vera Rosza, Sarah Walker, Tom Krause, Graham Johnson and Loh Siew-Tuan and took theVera Rozsa Scholarship that enabled him to make his dbut in Lelisir damore, Cos fan tutte, DieZauberflte, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi and Il barbiere di Siviglia. At the same time he participated

in the workshops of the Opera Studio of the Brussels Thtre de la Monnaie in A Midsummer Nights Dream,Wozzeck with Willy Decker and Don Giovanni with directors such as Keith Warner, Willy Decker and Ferdinand deCarpentries. At La Monnaie he sang in Don Pasquale, Francesconis Ballata and Cavallis Eliogabalo. In 2004 heparticipated in Alberto Zeddas Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, going on to appear there in Bianca e Falliero,Adelaide di Borgogna and La gazza ladra.

Prague Chamber Choir

The Prague Chamber Choir was established in 1990 and has appeared worldwide with leading orchestras andfamous conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Roger Norrington and Alberto Zedda. Concert tours have taken thechoir to Germany, France and Italy, and also to Japan and Australia. It was a guest at the world exhibition in Sevilleand its concerts were relayed, among others, by the BBC, Bavarian Radio, ORF and RAI. The choir sings regularlyat the ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL, Pesaro and in Bad Wildbad, appearing in 2004 in La Cenerentola, recordedfor Naxos (8.660191-92).

Banda Festiva Tbingen (Tbingen Festival Band)

The core of Banda Festiva Tbingen is the South West German Trombone Quartet from the Tbingen district. Itsleader, Martin Amberger, has been active for a number of years at the ROSSINI IN WILDBAD festival.

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Act II

8 Oh fiamma soave 8:30(Uberto)

9 Va, non temer 1:46(Elena, Serano, Uberto)

0 Alla ragion deh! Rieda 4:33(Elena, Uberto)

! Nume! Se a miei sospiri 3:44(Elena, Uberto)

@ Qual pena in me gi desta 1:29(Elena, Uberto, Rodrigo)

# Parla Chi sei? 7:09(Rodrigo, Elena, Uberto, Guerrieri)

$ Quante sciagure in un sol giorno 4:14(Albina, Malcolm, Serano)

% Ah! Si pera: ormai la morte 4:14(Malcolm)

^ Douglas! Ti salva! 3:23(Guerrieri, Albina, Serano, Malcolm)

& Reggia, ove nacqui 0:56(Elena)

* Che sento! 1:46(Elena, Giacomo)

( Stelle! Sembra egli stesso! 1:33(Elena, Giacomo)